create, promote, and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that
provides a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education for all students.
Educational Administrators:
"Through this document, I am trying to accomplish two things. First, I am attempting to weave together two sets of standards for school leaders, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders (2008) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) (2009). Second, I am trying to map technology tools/applications onto those standards. My hope is that this will become a guidance document for anyone who works with sitting and aspiring school leaders and who wants to better bring together the fields of educational leadership and educational technology."
The
Baldrige is a set of criteria that assess a combination of three interrelated
aspects common to all systems. It is first of all a measure of the
capacity of various system components and connections. The Baldrige Criteria
force us to assess the system components and determine how well they are working
together to achieve the organization's goals. Baldrige is also a process
for determining which components and which connections add value and which do
not add value. Finally, Baldrige is a blueprint for guiding the
development of a well-connected system capable of high performance.
The Baldrige Criteria, when
fully implemented, result in a well-aligned, well-coordinated and integrated
system of practices capable of meeting and exceeding the needs, expectations,
and requirements of its stakeholders.
1.
Validate the need for improvement.
2.
Clarify organizational purpose, goals, and measures.
3.
Adopt and deploy Baldrige as the organization-wide approach to continual
improvement.
4.
Translate the Baldrige approach into aligned action at all levels of the
organization.
5.
Analyze the results and make improvements.
6.
Repeat the cycle.
In order to be able to properly understand the six leadership styles Goleman introduces in his book Primal Leadership (2002, with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee), it is useful you first understand his human communication / interaction concept of resonance.
In the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.
The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology.
"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."
Michelle,
Thanks for posting this! Honestly, one of the best, most "focused" articles I have read in a long time. It really nails the issue of having little or no focus or direction when we're swamped by layers upon layers of standards, initiatives, and skills. Makes me wonder if it might not be a good idea to choose one or two of the NETS-S as a starting point, rather than be daunted by trying to integrate ALL of them.